The children and I love Easter eggs hunts and it’s lovely to have something cute to collect your yummy goodies in. These Homemade Easter Baskets are a great way to re-use old plastic milk jugs and they’re easy, quick and fun to make.
We get through so many plastic milk bottles in our household, it’s good to have some crafts that make use of them. So as well as these lovely Easter Baskets why don’t you take a look at our pretty Rainbow Mobile and Rocking Chick too.
How To Make An Easter Basket
Supplies To Make Recycled Easter Baskets
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- 4 pint plastic milk bottle, washed and dried
- scissors
- pencil
- acrylic paint
- stapler
For The Rabbit Easter Basket You’ll Also Need:
- an additional milk bottle
- glue (I used UHU)
- art straws or drinking straws for whiskers
How To Make Easter Baskets
1 – Decide how deep you want your basket and using the picture to guide you mark out your cut lines on the bottle using pencil.
2 – Starting at the top of the milk bottle, use scissors to cut out your base and handle. Remember you don’t have to use straight lines, have fun with waves or zigzags too.
3 – Once you’re happy with your shapes paint using acrylic paints and allow to dry. You may need two coats.
4 – When dry simply staple your handle into place.
(For the rabbit we cut the ears out of a second milk bottle and stapled them into place. For the whiskers we flattened the ends of some art-straws and glued them together in a three. When they were dry I glued them in place on the basket.
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Marian Weber says
March 22, 2016 at 4:17 pmWow! I so forgot about these. I was trying to rack my brains to come up with something different for my grandkids than going to buy another purchased basket. We use to do this when we were young and my mom could not afford one. My granddaughter will just love this and she can decorate it herself. We never did the handles though. What a clever idea. Are the handles real sturdy so basket does not flip over? I so want to do this? Thanks.
Emma says
March 23, 2016 at 11:41 amI hope your grandchildren have a great time with it. We’ve been making these for years now too, I do love a bit of recycling! I’ve never had any trouble with the handles but I wouldn’t overload the baskets too much just in case. 🙂 Happy Easter.
Lili Shang says
December 26, 2014 at 2:31 amGreat way to use an old milk carton…I’ll pass it on to others and your website…Best of luck and may your New Year be full of joy and happiness. lili
Jenna says
March 19, 2013 at 10:46 pmThese are adorable – what a great use for empty milk cartons 🙂
Emma "My Little 3 and Me" Smith says
March 20, 2013 at 12:22 amThanks Jenna. It does feel good to re-use them, we get through so many!